While you’re there reading the Gunter article, you should just read all of Tech Central Station today. They have quite a few good and thought-provoking articles on pharmaceutical pricing and importation, from such luminaries as Richard Epstein.
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Carbon Dioxide A Consequence, Not A Cause?
This Lorne Gunter article on climate change at Tech Central Station discusses research that suggests the opposite of what lots of people have been thinking: it suggests that carbon dioxide is a consequence of global warming,not a cause. It’s a very interesting, at a least to a certain extent testable, hypothesis. It is also consistent …
A reader has emailed me regarding my post last Tuesday on a recent Time magazine article on natural gas policy. He advocates a policy shift from regulation to taxation: Well, Dr. Kiesling, if you accept the view of Time’s writers that energy policy needs to consist primarily of regulation and subsidy, wouldn’t you expect the …
A reader has emailed me regarding my post last Tuesday on a recent Time magazine article on natural gas policy. He advocates a policy shift from regulation to taxation: Well, Dr. Kiesling, if you accept the view of Time’s writers that energy policy needs to consist primarily of regulation and subsidy, wouldn’t you expect the …
A reader has emailed me regarding my post last Tuesday on a recent Time magazine article on natural gas policy. He advocates a policy shift from regulation to taxation: Well, Dr. Kiesling, if you accept the view of Time’s writers that energy policy needs to consist primarily of regulation and subsidy, wouldn’t you expect the …
A reader has emailed me regarding my post last Tuesday on a recent Time magazine article on natural gas policy. He advocates a policy shift from regulation to taxation: Well, Dr. Kiesling, if you accept the view of Time’s writers that energy policy needs to consist primarily of regulation and subsidy, wouldn’t you expect the …
Philosophy And Novels
Tyler Cowen mentions that he will be discussing “scarcity and the novel” at a symposium that David Levy has organized “on how proverbs, maxims, and novels contain wisdom of a kind comparable to the wisdom found in models.” I have one example of this that I wish I had time to research. In Pride and …
Time Article On Natural Gas Supply
Steve Antler also remarked on this Time magazine article on natural gas and energy policy. I find the headline striking: Inflated oil prices and natural gas shortages are wiping out jobs and savings, thanks to three decades of bungled energy policy. Get ready for more bungling And here’s their take on the politicized process by …
Read The Proposed Senate Energy Bill
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee has a user-friendly page on S.14, the Senate energy bill proposal. The page also tracks proposed amendments. I agree with Steve Antler that we are very likely heading into an energy crisis; I would differ in my characterization, though, and say that it’s not that we don’t have …
Clearing The Air
Run, don’t walk, to the Reason website and read this wonderful article by Joel Schwartz on air quality in the US from Regulation magazine, a superb quarterly published by the Cato Institute. In noting the disconnect between actual air quality improvement and the general perception of poor air quality, Joel observes that This disconnect between …